I became so exhausted from the toxicity on Lemmy that I began searching for alternatives, and I stopped trying to argue in the comments. This leads me to wonder: am I the only one who is feeling this way?

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    8 months ago

    Maybe it puts me at risk of forming an echo chamber but I make liberal use of the block user, block community, block instance features.(in connect for lemmy. I don’t know which are app specific.)

    Lemmy seems to be small enough that blocking a few dozen particularly argumentative users noticeably improves the experience. Although I do try to avoid the politics communities and posts as those frequently end up with arguments and eventually name calling.

    Are you consuming the all feed unfiltered?

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      8 months ago

      Does it save those blocks? Cause I keep having to block the same communities over and over like it’s not sticking

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        8 months ago

        I’ve experienced some of what you describe, but it works for the most part. I just looked through my blocked communities list and I haven’t seen anything from them in a while.